Four Roane County High Students recently won special recognition as top jazz musicians who performed during the All-State East Tennessee Jazz Clinic in Walker Valley High School in Bradley County.

Terrence Long, Holly Aslinger, Roger McKinney and Andrew Layne, band students of Roane County High School Band Director Zack Williamson, competed with other jazz student performers from across East Tennessee to gain seats in one of three twenty-member jazz bands.

SATURDAY, APRIL 14
• Harriman First Presbyterian Church will have a rummage sale from 8 a.m. to noon at the church at 601 Clinton St.

• Kingston First Baptist Church will have Girls Night Out beginning at 7 in the church at 215 N. Kentucky St. The night of fun, faith and fellowship will include artist and speaker ilonka. Tickets are available at gnolive.com and at the church prior to and on the night of the event. Call 376-6041 for details.

Three Nails Artist Management will host a spring bash at Roane County Park Saturday, April 14.

“This thing has taken off like a rollercoaster,” said Donnie Manis, who is funding the event.

“Basically this is a kick-off to something that will probably grow.”

The free spring bash will include food; music from the management’s bands Stutterbox, Common Clay Worship, Affliction Asylum and Encounter Eternal; and preaching from Greg Carlyle of Potter’s House Fellowship.

A Kingston woman charged with aggravated domestic assault in the shooting death of her boyfriend is claiming the shot was accidentally fired.
Kingston police said Tammy Ellen Rosado shot her 63-year-old boyfriend, James Ronald Cobb, in the chest on April 4. He died April 7 at University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville.
According to the arrest warrant, Rosado called 911 around 1 a.m. and reported that Cobb had shot himself.
Police heard differently when they arrived at the couple’s 814 Rosedale Ave. residence.

A number of federal and state officials and their staffs have toured the soon-to-be-abandoned Roane Medical Center.
Today, Friday, April 13, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and aides from U.S. Sen. Bob Corker’s office will be touring the facility, which will be vacated once Covenant Health completes its new hospital in Midtown.
Proponents for a Veterans Affairs hospital have seen a huge response from their call for support, culminating recently in more than 600 people attending a meeting on Easter weekend.